Trust Media?

Can we trust the media? As we sit here is the UAE one of the yard sticks we use to measure our media is the US. But is the US a good measure? This Yahoo News story has me and my Ethics students asking that very question. After Obama’s live, late-evening address from the East [...]

Tradition and Future=Curators

There is a major struggle going on today in the area of news and information content creation and dissemination. The struggle is on several fronts, between the old school journalist and the new school technology enabled journalist, as well as with those who are looking at old school print/video/audio and the new smart technologies. And [...]

Journalism the new face

A conversation with Abbas Al Lawati about his time on the Freedom Floatilla. Abbas Al Lawati is the Gulf News reporter from Dubai who was on the Freedom Floatilla as it steamed towards Gaza. What is the role of the reporter? To report? To be an observer? To tell a story? Abbas found himself in [...]